Three more professionals join athletics management team
San Jose, Calif.-----Vince Otoupal, Ken McDonald and Erika Mares have joined the San Jose State University athletics administration management team. Tom Bowen, the Spartans' director of athletics, made the announcement.
| Vince Otoupal will direct the Spartan Foundation's fund-raising efforts. |
Otoupal will be an associate athletics director and oversee the activities of the Spartan Foundation, the department’s fund-raising arm; McDonald, an assistant athletics director for corporate sales; and Mares, an assistant athletics director for business development and community relations.
"We are excited to recruit these three individuals with outstanding backgrounds and proven success in business and intercollegiate athletics," said Bowen. "Each one of them will be able to raise our department’s awareness, excitement and excellence in the community."
Otoupal joins the Spartans after working for the Stanford University department of athletics from 1998 through 2000 and 2002 to the present. He served the department as the director of annual giving, a major gift officer, and project manager. Otoupal also served as a consultant analyzing financial trends for the University of Oregon athletics department in 2001 and 2002. A four-year letterwinner for the 1989 through 1992 Stanford football teams, he achieved the rank of captain in five years of service for the United States Marine Corps as an infantry officer. He graduated from Stanford in 1993 majoring in political science and organizational behavior and earned his M.B.A. from the University of Oregon in 2002.
McDonald has spent the last 25 years holding various sales, marketing, management and consulting positions for Northern California non-profit and for-profit business concerns. A graduate of Stanford University, he earned a master’s degree in wildland resource science from the University of California.
Mares worked for the San Francisco 49ers the last four seasons as an ambassador for stadium operations. The 1999 graduate of the University of Tulsa majored in political science and secondary education. Following graduation, she held management positions for two nationally-known retail chains.